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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner's decision to take plum committee assignments away from four conservative Republican lawmakers after they bucked party leaders on key votes isn't going over well with conservative advocacy groups that viewed them as role models.
Reps. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas and Justin Amash of Michigan will lose their seats on the House Budget Committee chaired by Rep. Paul Ryan next year. And Reps. Walter Jones of North Carolina and David Schweikert of Arizona are losing their seats on the House Financial Services Committee.
The move is underscoring a divide in the Republican Party between tea party-supported conservatives and the House GOP leadership.
"This is a clear attempt on the part of Republican leadership to punish those in Washington who vote the way they promised their constituents they would — on principle — instead of mindlessly rubber-stamping trillion dollar deficits and the bankrupting of America," said Matt Kibbe, president of the tea party group FreedomWorks.
Michael Steel, a spokesman for Boehner, would only say Tuesday that the party's steering committee chaired by the speaker made the decision "based on a range of factors."
Groups aligned with the tea party movement were generally big supporters of Huelskamp, Amash and Schweikert. Jones is viewed more as a conservative maverick than a tea party Republican. He has frequently siding against GOP leaders on a range of issues over the years. For example, he voted against the GOP budget because he opposed the changes proposed for Medicare.
Schweikert said it was made clear to him "I should vote for the team more."
"Look, we're walking into the 113th Congress with a smaller majority," Schweikert said. "I would have though the fixation would have been family unity. This isn't the way you start a family meeting."
"The GOP leadership might think they have silenced conservatives, but removing me and others from key committees only confirms our conservative convictions," Huelskamp said in a statement Tuesday. "This is clearly a vindictive move and a sure sign that the GOP establishment cannot handle disagreement."
All four lawmakers had voted against the summer 2011 deal negotiated between Republican leaders and President Barack Obama for extending the government's ability to borrow money in exchange for $1 trillion in spending cuts and the promise of another $1 trillion in reduced deficits. Three of the four, the exception being Schweikert, voted against the Ryan-written GOP budget blueprint that the House passed last March.
Their removal from key committees with jurisdiction over the two issues was viewed by some as a signal to other Republican lawmakers to look favorably on whatever final deal Boehner and Obama put together to avert a "fiscal cliff" combination of automatic tax increases and spending cuts in January.
"If it was intended to be a signal, it's going to be a weak signal because the majority of conservatives are going to do what they think is right based on principle," Jones said.
Amash said he has not been told specifically why he was removed, only that it was not based on his votes and that he should go talk to leadership. He said he voted with the Budget Committee's leadership 95 percent of the time. He said the move is likely to make him more independent in the future.
"Being nice to leadership and playing well with them doesn't pay off," Amash said. "They expect a near total agreement with their approach."
The changes in committee assignments could bring about more discipline from the GOP on high-priority issues next Congress, but conservatives were taking the news as an attack on their priorities.
"As the sun rises this morning we can look at John Boehner, Eric Cantor and Kevin McCarthy and know the opposition is not just across the aisle, but in charge of our own side in the House of Representatives," Erick Erickson wrote on the conservative website, RedState. "All the time and energy I would otherwise have to spend to convince conservatives that these gentlemen would be a problem for the GOP has been spared. They've proven it themselves."
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SYR and I had the pleasure of eating here, mid-afternoon today. Lior Saiag, the Chef/owner graduated from the New York Restaurant School in 2000 and has since worked at some of the most prestigious eateries in town, under very demanding famous chefs in the city.
Savor represents sort of a coming home, where Chef Lior can provide the frum community with the exacting cuisine standards which, while de rigueur in the non-Jewish world, have not always been present in kosher restaurants. With a more sophisticated consumer, with a clientele no longer content with the standard fare of the past, Chef Lior family is bringing to Savor a rich and wholesome menu.
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SYR followed with Salmon Stuffed with Spinach and Feta, it comes with herbed orzo and a cherry tomato salad.
The subtle blend of flavors was perfect match. While SYR, never cared for Feta cheese, combining it with with the salmon and the spinach helped her discover a savory dimension she never before experienced.
I had their Chilli Rubbed Grilled Tuna.
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A great meal at a restaurant with a very nice Mediteranean décor. The attention to detail in the presentation, in the cooking and in the appearance of the restaurant, make it quite obvious that this establishment represents a labor of love, a chef's dream come true even as it constantly evolves.


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The latest in an occasional series of posts on books I didn't finish and why I didn't finish them
Title: The Seamstress: A Novel. By Frances de Pontes Peebles. Ecco, 641 pp., $25.95.
What it is: A historical saga about two orphaned sisters, trained as seamstresses, whose lives diverge and converge in dangerous ways during their early adulthood Brazil in the 1930s. Emília marries into high society in Recife and opens a dress shop that thrives on the patronage of the prominent friends of her in-laws. Luzia lives among bandits after being abducted at an early age by cangaceiros, roving groups of men and women who for centuries plundered and protected the countryside of northeastern Brazil.
How much I read: The first 50 and the last 75 pages, about a quarter of the book.
What I stopped reading: This novel resembles a cross between a Brazilian Bonnie and Clyde and a Dominick Dunne novel. Like Dunne, Frances de Pontes Peebles has a strong sense of pace, uses her research well and maps the intersection of sex, crime and social status. She also weaves into her plot an appealing sewing motif, showing how rewarding and arduous dressmaking could be when Singer's hand-cranked machines were giving way to electric ones. In The Seamstress the tape measure is a metaphor for truth or trustworthiness, the ability to give a straight account. But for all her painstaking attention to detail, de Pontes Peebles draws her characters broadly. She tells us that people called young Luzia "the yolk" and Emília "the white," and the sisters have that yolk-and-white quality in the novel. Interesting as some of the material was, the book didn't have enough depth to hold my attention for more than 600 pages.
Best line in what I read: "Beneath her bed, Aunt Sofia kept a wooden box that held her husband's bones."
Worst line in what I read: Would a Brazilian woman living in 1928 have used the phrase "state-of-the-art" (as in "a state-of-the-art machine: a pedal-operated Singer")?
Published: August 2008 www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060738877/The_Seamstress/index.aspx
Furthermore: The Seamstress is the first novel by de Pontes Peebles, who was born in Brazil and grew up in Miami.
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Parker: Ennui and self-loathing in This Town
This is the time when Americans renew their hatred of Washington and Washington wallows in a bittersweet cocktail of self-love and self-loathing.
Which is to say, was White House Correspondents' Association weekend, with the dinner Saturday night amid a galaxy of pre- and after-parties. Attendant to these events is the also-annual handwringing about the dinner's value.
Those questioning, of course, are the media, who create the problem, then examine the problem, then suggest ways to solve the problem (that we don't really believe is a problem) and then go on to repeat the problem.
The rest of the world couldn't care less about the dinner except perhaps to note that Washington is out of touch with regular Americans and that journalists are too schmoozy with officialdom. Most journalists would agree, but who would want to miss the scholarship awards? Oh, you didn't know about those?
What we all hate most is the attendance of so many celebrities, who undermine the noble purpose of this convocation. Moreover, they tend to make journalists, who have spent considerable time looking their red-carpet best, feel like last week's tulips.
Hence, the popular description of Washington as "Hollywood for Ugly People," and the dinner as the "Nerd Prom." Not that anyone in the media really feels this way, but it makes everyone feel better to say so, especially in light of the seething wall of protesters gathered each year outside the Washington Hilton.
The buzz-killer crowd, however, is quickly forgotten once inside, where an avenue of cameras and lights awaits stars passing along the red carpet. Note to future newbies: Your entrance is upstairs. Otherwise, you risk a probable humiliation that the lights will suddenly go dark and your grand entrance becomes a soul-killing walk of shame past a gantlet of fish-eyed fans of other people.
This experience can be helpful, on the other hand, as you summon the requisite pose of perpetual self-awareness. Your thinking should follow this vein: It's not that you want to go to the dinner. It's your job to go. Whither goes the president, so go the media. And of course, the media did invite him, as well as all those celebrities we find so disruptive. There's a circularity to all of this that suggests an apt metaphor.
Another handy prompt to self-awareness is being gridlocked among 2,800 overheated people in long gowns and tuxedos as one tries to funnel one's way toward the escalator to the pre-party area. Standing shoulder to shoulder with Cabinet members and screen stars reminds us that no matter one's station in life, we all perspire the same.
Almost no one present will fail to note his or her ambiguity toward the dinner and the parties that most are dying to attend. There are exceptions to this club-think, notably The New York Times and Tom Brokaw. The Times stopped sending its staffers several years ago, saying the media shouldn't be partying with people it covers.
Brokaw made headlines when he protested the celebrity-driven nature of the evening, specifically following Lindsay Lohan's overshadowing presence the year before last. He lamented that the purpose of the evening — to allow journalists and politicians to mingle in a lighthearted, relaxed environment — had been hijacked.
He was right about the Lohan spectacle. I was standing nearby visiting with Lohan's hostess, Greta Van Susteren, when none other than Rick Santorum brought his daughters for a snapshot with the starlet. Brokaw is also right about the superficiality and misplaced emphasis of the evening. For this reason, many of us, including Van Susteren, swear we'll never go again. But since most of us do attend again, I hoped Brokaw might relent and asked him to be my date this year.
With his usual blunt charm, he described in delicious detail why he would never again darken the door of the correspondents' dinner. Feeling shallow and contrite before such superior standards, I feebly offered that I agreed completely, but, you see, I had this dress.
"Well," he said, "If you'd let me wear the dress, I might reconsider."
Oh, how I loathe myself, my lack of will, my willingness to laugh at great jokes, greet friends and eat free food — the real lure for journalists who remember when they were always hungry.
Thus, as you are my witness, I vow never again. At least until next time — or Brokaw wears a dress.
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July 27th, 2010
Music may harm your studying, study says
If you're studying for a test, putting on background music that you like may seem like a good idea. But if you're trying to memorize a list in order - facts, numbers, elements of the periodic table - the music may actually be working against you, a new study suggests.
Researchers at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff, United Kingdom, looked at the ability to recall information in the presence of different sounds. They instructed 25 participants between ages 18 and 30 try to memorize, and later recall, a list of letters in order. The study authors are Nick Perham and Joanne Vizard, and the study will appear in the September 2010 issue of Applied Clinical Psychology.
Participants were tested under various listening conditions: quiet, music that they'd said they liked, music that they'd said they didn't like, a voice repeating the number three, and a voice reciting random single-digit numbers.
The study found that participants performed worst while listening to music, regardless of whether they liked that music, and to the speech of random numbers. They did the best in the quiet and while listening to the repeated "three."
Music may impair cognitive abilities in these scenarios because if you're trying to memorize things in order, you may get thrown off by the changing words and notes in your chosen song, the authors speculate.
Although other studies have found benefits to listening to music before performing a task, the authors note that this new research presents a more realistic scenario: hearing music at the same time as doing the expected task.
In the 1990s, listening to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was thought to increase spatial abilities, but subsequent research failed to find the same effect. But other studies have found a "Schubert effect" for people who like the music of Franz Schubert, and a "Stephen King" effect for people who liked a narrated story by that author. The explanation for all of this could be that when you hear something you like, it heightens your arousal and mood, which improves performance, Perham and Vizard note.
The new study does not necessarily contradict those previous findings, but does suggests some limitations on the benefits of music in memorizing lists of things in order, the authors wrote. It may still be the case that listening to music before performing a task like that helps cognitive abilities. But this new research suggests that it might be better to study for an exam in quiet, or listen to music beforehand.
Still, given the small sample size, the study provides only preliminary results that need to be further explored in other experiments.
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As we approach mid-May, the Braves continue to hold onto 1st place in the NL East. I'm not sure how others feel but I am pleasantly surprised. Still, there is a long way to go and the traps and pit falls associated with a 162 game season can jump up and bite the Bravos.
The Mets looked as if they were going to be an unstoppable juggernaut the first two weeks of the 2018 season but injuries to key players and a sudden collapse of their vaunted pitching staff has made them appear very ordinary. While there is lots of time for the New York nine to right their ship, they look very beatable.
Same could be said for the mighty Nationals. They stumbled out of the gate but they have come on strong of late, and they trail both the Braves and the Phillies.
As for the Phillies, I thought they would be much improved this season but they are strong all the way across the board. Good pitching and defense and a solid pen, however, they have a losing record against teams in their division. Could the Braves have contributed to that?
The Marlins are where everyone expected but they do have some pretty impressive pieces. I doubt they will have many of those players around by mid-season as they go full on rebuild.
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by Ann E. Boehler
I've spent the past hour weaving, jabbing, punching, and kicking. I'm drenched in sweat, my hair is plastered to my forehead, and my cheeks are flushed. No, I haven't just wrestled the remote from my boyfriend, I've just finished a cardio kickboxing class. If you're like me, active but a little less than coordinated, you may have avoided these classes at your gym and opted instead, for the all too familiar classes (read: step, step, and more step). But as I discovered, not only is cardio kickboxing a whole lot more fun than endless sequences of U-turns and basic steps, it's a full-body, highly aerobic workout that gets you in great shape, faster than you can say grapevine.
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Cardio kickboxing classes vary from gym to gym but the basic format is generally the same: a series of drills set to music including shadow boxing, various types of kicks, push-ups, jump rope, jumping jacks, shuffling, and punching/kicking combinations. In some classes, instructors use props such as jump ropes, gloves, and speed bags; and in others everything is simulated. Unlike typical aerobics classes, there is no complicated choreography to grasp or intricate routines to commit to memory. What's more, most classes change from week to week, so you're always challenged and never bored.
Kickboxing has slowly evolved into the increasingly popular gym workout it is today. According to Dave Fox, founding director of Gorilla Sports, a gym in San Francisco, boxing was first introduced into aerobics classes. Then, kicking moves borrowed from martial arts were added to work the lower body as well. The result: cardio kickboxing classes as we know them.
Becoming a Kickboxer
Since my regular five-day-a-week routine of walking, weights, and yoga could stand a little mixing up, I decided to try kickboxing for six weeks to see what the hype was all about. Fox told me that if I added one kickboxing class a week to my regular program, in about a month, I would see results such as greater strength and endurance, and better yet, improved muscle tone all over.
And that's why kickboxing has such a growing legion of fans: it's a full-body workout that delivers. During a typical class, you work your calves, thighs, glutes, torso, abs, shoulders, biceps, triceps, deltoids, trapezoids, and back, says Sabrina Bichao, CPT, an aerobics instructor who teaches at several Boston-area gyms. Virtually no body part is left unworked.
I can attest to that fact personally. The day after I was introduced to kickboxing, my whole body, calves to shoulders, ached; it even hurt to laugh. Kickboxing also improves strength, coordination, endurance, and balance. On top of that, it offers a continually changing workout—the key to a better body.
"If you're always doing the same routine, your body will plateau. You need something to challenge it, because your body gets conditioned to the activity," says Bichao.
Results are not reserved for workout novices. In fact, even dedicated gym-goers can expect to see results from kickboxing. That was the case with Margarita Barrios, 24, a graphic designer living in Allston, Massachusetts. Even though she worked out for almost two hours, five days a week, doing everything from group cycling to weights, she couldn't get the definition she wanted in her chest, shoulders, and obliques until she tried her club's version of kickboxing. After just four classes, she's already seen vast improvement.
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While kickboxing is much simpler to pick up than say, an aerobics class, plan on spending a few classes getting the moves down. Unlike its fitness class brethren, kickboxing requires no special skills, no rhythm, and best of all, no innate dancing ability (although it does require an ability to block out what you look like while attempting those first few punches and kicks).
"Anyone can do it. There are new people in every class next to people who have been doing it for two years," says Fox.
"You don't have to be super-coordinated," agrees Bichao.
"The first time you take a class that hard, you're just trying to keep up. But by the second class, I noticed a difference. I was more prepared and able to concentrate more on my form," says Barrios.
For me, it took about three classes to feel like I knew what I was doing.
But it only took one class to get me hooked. Here's why: In addition to promising a better body faster, kickboxing is fun. And I don't mean fun as in as-much-fun-as-you-can-have-at-the-gym fun, I mean playing-kick-the-can-when-you-were-a-kid fun. Even in the early classes when I was barely keeping up, I couldn't help but get caught up in the exhilaration of the class. I'm not the only one.
"While spinning is a real individual challenge (you literally close your eyes and it's up to you) kickboxing is sort of a mob mentality. Everyone is having fun, it's like being on a playground," says Barrios.
"There's a lot of energy in the room. Everyone is trying to help each other out, it's not competitive," says Barbara Schmitt, 27, a pharmaceutical salesperson in San Francisco, California.
I got so enthusiastic in one class that I actually unleashed a "Whoop!" a definite first in all my years of gym-going.
The fact that classes are constantly changing (never boring) also contributes to the fun factor. Even after taking kwando (her club's version of kickboxing) twice a week for the past year, Schmitt still finds it fun and challenging.
Kickboxing, What Have You Done For Me Lately?
Of course, the biggest allure of kickboxing is what it can do for your body.
"There's an incredible difference in my shoulders and back muscles," says Susanne H., 28, an accountant from Waltham, Massachusetts, who has taken kickboxing for a year.
Joan O'Connor, 47, a real estate manager in Gloucester, Massachusetts, lost six pounds after six months of weekly classes. "I also gained strength and endurance and really toned my upper body," she says.
For Gene Lyras, 27, a financial analyst in Boston, kickboxing improved his balance and coordination. "And I'm learning to throw punches," he says.
Schmitt finds that the classes have given her better coordination and improved endurance. She's also noticed changes in her upper body, as well as in her legs and glutes.
In my case, after six weeks, not only did I feel stronger and deliver more solid punches and kicks, I noticed a definite difference in my obliques and more definition in that perpetually problematic hamstring and glute area. More important, however, is the way I felt both during and after class. Kickboxing made me feel energetic, more self-confident, and even empowered. Sure, my body was tired afterwards, but my mind was more alert than ever; I'd go back to work and get tons done.
What's more, I'd find myself spontaneously throwing punches in my living room or aiming pretend kicks at my napping (and unsuspecting) boyfriend. I couldn't wait for my next class. I even started lobbying my gym to hold class twice a week, instead of just once.
So while my experiment may be over, my love affair with kickboxing is definitely not. If six classes can return results like these, I can't wait to see what a few months can do.
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TV shows and movies set in Washington, D.C., often cast real-life members of the media to report on fictional proceedings. But the new Netflix political drama House of Cards takes that to a new level.
ABC's George Stephanopoulos plays himself in the series' second hour, interviewing a Secretary of State nominee on his This Week set. No spoilers, but it's a tough grilling that provides a turning point in the story. In Episode 3, CNN's Soledad O'Brien queries ambitious reporter Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara) on Starting Point. O'Brien has plenty of CNN company, as John King, Candy Crowley and political analyst Donna Brazile also briefly appear as themselves during the series' run, intermixed with fictional news personalities played by actors.
Executive producer Beau Willimon wanted to cast real news people because of the authenticity they bring to the show. Most TV news organizations allow on-air talent to do scripted work on a case-by-case basis, but it also helps if the show has connections.
Jay Carson, a political consultant who advises on House of Cards, was an intern for Stephanopoulos while he was teaching at Columbia University. "They maintained their friendship," Willimon says. "I said to Jay, 'Hey, I have no idea if George would be into this or not but will you reach out to him?' Luckily for us, George was willing and excited. I think it's one of the very best parts of Chapter 2."
Even though many journalists have never met a camera they didn't like, some did turn down a chance to appear on the show. "Most of them said, 'I'm flattered, thank you, but I'm absolutely slammed with coverage of the presidential election,'" Willimon says. "That may have been their nice way of saying no." But he'll keep asking when the second season starts shooting in the spring.
"One of the big differences between the BBC version of House of Cards and ours is the increasing prevalence of 24-hour TV news and online news in the last 20 recent years," Willimon says. "To not address that in some sort of meaningful way would have been telling a lie. That is as big a part of politics as anything now."
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As a sixth grade teacher, I meet many students who immediately profess their hatred of reading to me on the first day of school. While I do everything I can to draw a passion for reading out of them, nothing is more powerful than the recommendation of a friend. Social reading, the act of one person recommending a book to another, has caused books to literally fly off my shelves. It's my most powerful secret weapon in the fight against reading hate.
If you take a look at the list of books my students last year thought shouldn't be missed, you'll see many books that might not be familiar at first glance. But they are familiar to my students. More than familiar. Each of those books was introduced to the class either by my booktalk, a personal recommendation to a particular student, or when a student found it in the library. However, the power of recommendations from fellow students was what made each book a "must read" for the rest of my classes.
So how does a book become a social read? How do we harness this power and repeat it over and over, year after year? Back in June, I took a few minutes to look over my classroom surveys and tried to find an example of a social read in my classroom. One of the most popular student recommended books in my classroom for two years running is the Cirque du Freak series .
I read the first book in Darren Shan's series a few years ago. While I enjoyed it, it's definitely not my kind of book. (Too much gore and horror!) However, it's a great example of the horror genre and I booktalk it every year. While I may not want to read the whole series, it's the perfect book for dormant readers, especially boys.
Last year, I booktalked the series to the class as a whole. One student raised his hand and requested to read my copy. I handed it over and told him to let me know what he thought after reading it. A few days later, that former dormant reader was almost done the book and couldn't stop talking to me about it. I explained that I didn't love the book and he asked me why, getting me to outline why I didn't enjoy them. We not only had a great discussion about finding the right book for the right reader, but also about why he loved the book. Within the week, he had moved onto the second book in the series. This was a reader who previously met me head-on whenever I tried to recommend a book, circumventing everything I tried.
Over the course of the week, while conferencing about his reading, I noticed a few of my other students leaning closer to us, listening in. On the Friday of that week, I decided to take a few minutes at the end of a class period to have the students share what they were reading and some brief thoughts, thinking it might spark an interest in a few other students. I had nothing to lose! My dormant reader did his own book talk for Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare and man, was he good! He talked it up way better than I could have, because he genuinely loved the book. Before I could even take out the other copies I had, 5 hands were waving in the air. Students who struggled to find a book, students who abandoned books constantly- all requesting to read Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare.
At the time, I didn't think much of it. I figured one or two of the students might finish the book, with the others moving on from the book as quickly as they moved on from other books they had attempted. As it was still early in the year, I didn't know my readers very well. To my eyes, Darren Shan's books didn't seem like the right match for them. Having nothing to lose and wanting all of my students to try books that they thought they would enjoy, I passed out all of my copies. The students all settled down that day with their copy of the book and began reading.
I did make one change to our reading time at that point. The boys reading Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare begged to sit near each other during reading time and I let them. It was the best decision I could have made. I watched as that group of boys expanded over the year, with new readers entering the fold every week and the original readers staying put, reading the rest of the books in the series. They would quietly answer each other's questions, discuss predictions, and jokingly cover their ears if someone who was ahead of them in the series began to talk about a spoiler. It was amazing to watch. The best part? All I did was provide the initial booktalk that hooked ONE dormant reader. His enthusiasm spread to more readers, and then to more. It was a domino effect. He did more than I could have ever done to inspire a passion for reading.
Over the course of the year, Cirque du Freak became a "best-seller" in my classroom. I give all the credit to the students who spent the whole year talking to each other about their books. At the end of the year four of my students had finished the entire series, two moved on to reading The Demonata #1: Lord Loss: Book 1 in the Demonata series, and about 10 were at various points in the original series. Why? Because I allowed reading the books to be social. They didn't talk to each other during independent reading, other than to answer questions quietly, but they did talk about the books constantly. The students carried their books around all day, competed with each other to see who made the best predictions and who read the series the fastest, and they constantly recommended the series to other students. While that may seem to go against everything we have been taught about SSR (one of those S's is supposed to stand for Silent!), but allowing students to share and discuss books meant even more students READ the books!
Social reading is such a powerful concept and one of the best ways to get students to enjoy books and reading. Howcan we capture that in more classrooms?
- Start with teachers who are enthusiastic about books!
- Booktalk, booktalk, booktalk. Make your students aware of their choices.
- Allow kids to be passionate about their book choices. Maybe they don't choose to read the books you think are "literary" or otherwise worthy, but they are reading. And those books will be a gateway to more books.
- Kids are social creatures by nature. If they are talking about books, encourage it! Give them an opportunity to talk about their books, but without doing a book report or graded booktalk. Attaching these social opportunities to a graded assignment makes it a pressure-filled situation for the kids and they won't enjoy it. They'll be too busy worrying about their own grade to listen to what anyone else has to say.
- Cultivate those scenarios where kids are talking about books. Whether it's in the hallways, at lunch, or in your classroom- keep the conversation going! Don't talk down to your kids or pass judgement on their reading choices. Just let them read!
- Make sure books are available! If they fall in love with a series, figure out a way to get copies of the books. Let their parents know what they are reading, have the school librarian order more copies, scour garage sales, etc. I also have my students make book donations at the end of the year, donating books to the classroom that they no longer need. Needless to say, I now own more than my fair share of Darren Shan's books. 😉 But do everything you can to make books available to your students! My current students are currently passing around The Lightning Thief. Everyday another student asks for a copy, so I own 4 copies. I just placed an order with Scholastic for 5 more copies. Anything to keep them reading!
Social reading is so very powerful. It's also so easy to grow in our classrooms and homes. Kids are opinionated and they know what they like. While they love to hear our ideas and recommendations (as long as they believe in us and know we aren't being fake), they love to hear from their peers even more.
When my students leave my classroom and move on to the middle school they express concern that they won't have me to rely on anymore for books. My response? I'm just a crutch they are used to having. Most of them are long past the days of relying solely on my booktalks and recommendations to choose their books. I remind them that they will always be surrounded with peers and friends and classmates. That's a huge pool of resources just waiting to be tapped! As long as everyone does their part, continuing to read and share their books, my students will always have books to read. It's a culture- a reading culture- and we need to start cultivating it in our schools!
*A version of this was originally posted over the summer
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